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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person.
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
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For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
4) Yours truly
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Part of your world volume 2
Publisher
Forever
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First edition.
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English
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"Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man-doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's "pain in my ass" scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game... by sending Briana a letter. And it's a really good letter....
5) The promise
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"Mallory Hammond is determined not to let her boyfriend, parents, or anyone else get in the way of her goal to save a life. She had that chance when she was a teenager, and the opportunity slipped away, leaving a void she's desperate to fill. Then a new friend she met online offers her the chance she has dreamed of. But she'll have to leave behind everyone she loves to take it"--
As a teenager Mallory wanted to donate a kidney to save her cousin,...
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Thomas Nelson
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English
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"Elin Summerall was one of the lucky ones. Not only did she get a heart transplant, but the donor was a perfect fit. A miraculously perfect fit. But when Elin begins having violent flashbacks--and vivid dreams of being strangled--she realizes that she has been the recipient of more than just a new heart: Elin is remembering her donor's murder"--Page 4 of cover.
7) Blood work
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After she was murdered in Los Angeles, the heart of Gloria Torres was transplanted to save the life of onetime FBI agent Terry McCaleb who returns the favor by going after Gloria's killer.
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Narrativas hispanicas volume 633
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Anagrama Editorial
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Primera edicion.
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Español
10) Tell tale
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Genius Entertainment
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Widescreen.
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English
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Terry has a new lease on life thanks to a recent heart transplant and to meeting a beautiful woman. Life takes a turn, however, when he becomes haunted by his own heartbeat and realizes he must investigate the death of his heart's donor.
11) Blood work
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[publisher not identified]
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Widescreen edition.
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English
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FBI profiler Terry McCaleb suffers from a heart attack and retires, but a serial killer with a grudge taunts the ex-agent back into work.
After she was murdered in Los Angeles, the heart of Gloria Torres was transplanted to save the life of onetime FBI agent Terry McCaleb who returns the favor by going after Gloria's killer.
12) Organ donation
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Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
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English
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"Organ Donation offers an overview of the donation and transplantation process and is written for non-specialists, including people needing a transplanted organ, potential donors and their families, and students considering a career related to organ donation and transplantation. While not intended to replace medical or professional advice, it does offer discussion and clarification of many issues, written for the non-professional, that might be of...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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First American edition.
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English
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"Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating.The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from...
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